Posted: Wed 12 May 2010, 11:27 Post subject:
Super Easy USB Installer with Graphical MenuSubject description: borrowed from slax, modified for Puppeee, you can use it for your puplet

In my search for something easier than Unetbootin to install Puppeee to a usb stick, I discovered that the Slax USB installer had already done all the hard work for me.

To install to a usb stick just download a tarball, extract the files to a usb stick, then if you're running windows, click on boot/bootinst.bat or click on boot/bootinst.sh if your're running Linux. And that's it folks! You now have a bootable Puppy on USB.

You can download a copy of Puppeee at http://puppeee.com. Then you must replace the Puppeee specific files with the files from your own puplet, and modify the scripts that reference Puppeee, and change it to your puplet name. The menu is in boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg. You can modify the options and change the background.

Let me know if you need assistance. I will be happy to explain how things work more thoroughly.

An ISO is an image for installing to a CD. Most netbooks don't even have a CD drive. Making a bootable usb stick from an ISO is harder than it needs to be. The tarball install is easier than Unetbootin and more flexible than using a binary image.

I don't intend this post as something for the end user at the moment. This is for developers who are looking for a better solution than an ISO.

oops oh sorry. I can edit out all that in my post and you two so we start all over? that way the thread would look less confusing to the devs?
I try to edit my post_________________I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

AWWW, you have cute site there for pupeee with that pink/yellow layout
I like the screenshots seems like you put many different themes in it almost make me buy eeePC just to install it and get feeling of running it .
Maybe you can tar up all icewm themes cause I think they're not in icepack or thru forum?
Sorry for offtopic, just saw your pupeee site for first time _________________Dpup 487 | Puppy Gallery | My photo gallery | mtPaint works

Raffy hosts the website and selected the template. He does a really good job!

The themes are all from the IcePak or from the forum, but some are modified beyond recognition. If you download my IceWM package you get most of them. But I've changed some of them since I uploaded that package. So I will post a tarball to the themes exchange when I'm sure I'm done tweaking.

On my Ubuntu desktop I downloaded a copy of puppeee-rc1-atom.tar (md5sum checked out OK) and copied it to a vfat-32 formatted SD card, where I un-tarred it.

Moved the card to my Eeepc, booted into XP, went to the card (on drive E via "My Computer", and clicked on /boot/bootinst batch file.

The boot installer window opened, where I read the warnings about being careful, and pressed a key to continue.

Then the message "Setting up boot record for E:, wait please...The system cannot find the path specified. Disk E: should be bootable now. Installation finished...press any key to continue", made an exit from from boot installer, closed down XP.

On re-booting I press "ESC" to get me to the BOOT DEVICE MENU, where I select "USB:Single Flash Reader" (the only USB device present on the machine), and I am sent to a black screen with a blinking white cursor...

I have repeated the above with a fresh download with the same outcome.

I did not have any factory-fresh USB sticks or SD cards, so I used a SD card that earlier had ext3 on it that I had formatted to vfat. After reformatting I looked at the SD card with Gparted and fdisk -l, and they both agreed that the card had fat32 with a boot flag.

I put the puppeee-rc1-atom files on the card, and under Ubuntu 9.04 clicked on bootinit.sh. It asked me if I wanted to display it or run it, I said "run". Then another window briefly flashed on the screen (not enough time to even see any contents of the window). I did look at bootinst.sh with a text editor later and it appeared to be a normal bash script.

On booting the SD card on my Eeepc, as before it led to a black screen with blinking cursor. I can boot Easy Peasy and Puppy 4.3.1 (not optimized for Eeepc) from that same SD card slot without any problem.

Could one of you be so kind as to post the entire script, so I don't have to download the puppee distro (I have an NC10) and extract it myself? My inet is pretty slow, otherwise I wouldn't even ask... Thanks.

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